Thanks LG, means a lot, i am just being pathetic

So sad to read this, like all of us I really hope you'll be OK, I thought it was worldy events but if it's closer to home then it's hard but I'm sure you'll sort it, will be thinking of you.

Fab photo ... love it!!

Lovely photos June of your beautiful girls!

Great pictures June they all look so fit and relaxed

LG winter preparations I hope you're not going to tell us we are due for some snow

Of course we are due for some snow Harvey - the blessing is that it tends to not last very long up here. Bad whilst it's with us but as we have a lot of mist and drizzle it tends to be gone in a fortnight - tops. Unlike your former domicile in Czechland where the dreaded white stuff lasts for months on end!
I've been checking roofs, gutterings and drainage access today so that if it does come there will hopefully be no nasty surprises. All that remains is to put new felting on one of my poultry houses and then it is mission accomplished.

My search for a light with a protective cage around it, and a gripper is proving entertaining. Who would have thought there would be so many different types, so many poor reviews I think I have found one, but need to know if it has an on/off switch, I have messaged them but no reply so far.
Still awaiting the reappearance of Alun so I can find out if the brick built house is still feasible. He's not shown at training for 3 weeks now, could be his shifts, hoping the extension he was building hasn't fallen apart
Griff, hoping you start feeling better in yourself very soon.
Thanks everyone for the kind comments on the girls, I just thought they looked so happy together in the sunshine and took the piccies

Yep, still have nightmares about being buried in snow while trying to shift the stuff to get the car out and sometimes having just dug a 100 yards to the road the bloomin snow plough would pass by and chuck it all back at me grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Don't want it even for a fortnight Just realised it will be two years next month that we moved here.

I have a couple of gutters to 'look at' in the next week or two, I don't think they've been cleared for many years. The previous owner had poultry but I gave the hen house away as soon as we moved in.

How do you keep Fagin and the chooks seperated We had to pay the local farmer several times for Baruskas food hunting exploits about equivalent of £2 so wasn't too bad and they were partly to blame as they allowed the chooks to run everywhere even on the roads and of course they lost many more to the foxes.

None of mine have an on/off switch, although some may have. If you have to get one without a switch you could plug it in to a wall socket with a switch if there's one handy.

I can, and do, switch them off at the mains, but I also switch the present ones off when I've finished with them, because every so often I forget, mean to do it later and don't. I suspect I'm going to have to adopt a belt and braces attitude with Zen as finding it hard to keep up with her, never mind one step ahead